still gone. it's a tragedy for them. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline," i'm natalie morales, thank you for watching. acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is trying to clear up his comments about ukraine. he is insisting he didn't admit to a quid pro quo with u.s. aid even though he said last week the u.s. does it all the time. >> president trump reverses course on his plans to held next year's g-7 summit at his resort. nancy pelosi and a bipartisan congressional -- in the wake of president trump's decision to remove u.s. troops from northern syria. ♪

good morning, it's monday october 21st, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin with mick mulvaney who is still trying to clean up his comments about why the trump administration withheld aid to ukraine for weeks. during an appearance on fox news sunday mulvaney continued to walk back his remarks last week about quid pro quo arguing that reporters had misinterpreted his comments. >> why did you say in that briefing that president trump had ordered a quid pro quo that investigating the democrats, that aid to ukraine depended on investigating the democrats, why'd you say that? >> here's what i said, i'll say it again, and hopefully people will listen this time. there were two reasons we held up the aid. we've talked about this at some length. the first one was the rampant corruption in ukraine. the president was also concerned about whether or not other

nations, specifically european nations were helping with foreign aid to ukraine as well. in the past the president had mentioned to me from time to time about the dnc server. he even mentioned it to presidese lezelensky in the phone call. >> you described a quid pro quo and said that happens all the time. >> reporters will use their language all the time. my language never said quid pro quo. i never said there was a quid pro quo because there isn't. chris, you've been in these briefings. you know how back and forth it is. you know how rapid fire it is. look to the facts on the ground, things that you can actually sort of certify and that what should put this issue to bed is that the money flowed without any connection whatsoever to the dnc, sir. >> so that was sunday. here again is what mick mulvaney said in his own words clearly on thursday. >> he also mentioned to me in

the past that the corruption related to the dnc server, absolutely, no question about that. but that's it, and that's why we held up the money. i was involved with the process by which the money was held up temporarily, okay. three issues for that. the corruption in the country, whether or not other countries were participating in the support of the ukraine, and whether or not they were cooperating in an ongoing information with our department of justice. that's completely legit mat. >> secretary of state mike pompeo denied that quid pro quo was part of the white house decision-making process in determining whether or not to give aid to ukraine. >> i'm telling you what i was involved with. i'm telling you what i saw transpiring and how president trump was working to make the evaluation about whether it was appropriate to provide this assistance. >> that's what i'm asking is would it be appropriate to condition that -- >> george, i'm not going to get into hypotheticals and secondary things based on what someone else has said. you would have never done it when you were the spokesperson. >> it's not a hypothetical.

we saw the chief of staff, the acting chief of staff -- >> it is george, george, you just said if this happened. that is by definition a hypothetical. >> the chief of staff said it did. >> george, you asked me if this happened, it's a hypothetical. i've told you what i observed, what i saw the process related to this very funding. >> so despite those attempted walk backs, president trump's re-election campaign is embracing the controversy rolling out new merchandise that includes a $30 t-shirt emblazoned with the phrase get over it. a member of the line from the acting white house chief of staff's briefing. this america is ready for congress to get back to work, no more witch hunts. president trump won in 2016, and he's going to win even bigger in 2020. get over it, and get on with it. >> following widespread criticism, president trump announced on saturday that the group of 7 summit will no longer be held at his doral resort in florida. the president wrote in part, i thought i was doing something

very good for our country by using trump national doral in miami for hosting the g-7 leaders. is big, grand, and on hundreds of acres next to miami international airport and has tremendous ballrooms and meeting rooms and each delegation would have its own 50 to 70 unit building. i announced i would be willing to do it at no profit or if legally permissible at zero cost to the usa. as usual the hostile media and their democratic partners went crazy. therefore based on dmbt crazed hostility, we will no longer consider trump national doral as the host site for the g-7 in 2020. trump's initial decision to host the g-7 summit at his resort faced scrutiny because it could violate the constitution's emoluments clause which forbids profiting from a president from any foreign government or leader. >> mick mulvaney raised eyebrows

when he said the president was surprised at the level of pushback he received. here's what mulvaney had to say. >> at the end of the day, you know, he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business, and he saw an opportunity to take the biggest leaders from around the world and he wanted to put on the absolute best show, the best visit he possibly could, and he was very comfortable doing it at doral. we were all surprised at the level of pushback. i think it's the right decision to change. we'll have to find someplace else. >> i just have to pick up. he considers himself in the hospitality business. he's the president of the united states. >> yeah. and the justice department is distancing itself from president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani. according to the "new york times," the doj released a statement explaining that department officials would not have met with giuliani to discuss one of his clients had they known federal prosecutors in new york were investigating

two of his associates. they note the head of the justice department's criminal division along with lawyers from the division's fraud section met with giuliani several weeks ago to discuss a prescribe bribery . the meeting took place before the united states attorney's office in manhattan publicly charged the two giuliani associates lev parnas and igor fruman of breaking campaign finance laws. p they were part of the efforts to push ukraine for an inquiry into democrats. officials were not aware of any investigation until giuliani's associates in the southern district of new york and would not have met with him had they known. >> president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani attempted to secure a visa from the state department for ousted ukraine prosecutor viktor shokin. that's according to two people familiar with diplomat george kent eets testimo kent's testimony last week. it is unclear when giuliani requested shokin's visa.

he and two of his associates who were recently indicted for campaign finance violations interviewed the former ukrainian prosecutor by phone this past january. according to documents given to congress by the intelligence community inspector general and obtained by nbc news, two days later giuliani and his associates interviewed shokin's successor in person at giuliani's manhattan office. giuliani's interest in speaking to ukrainian officials revolves around the unproven claim that former vice president joe biden attempted to shield his son hunter's work in the country. >> joining us from washington, d.c., political reporter for the washington examiner, emily larsen. good to have you with us on this monday morning. let's begin with all of this surrounding president trump's personal attorney. what would the necessity be for president trump's personal attorney to conduct interviews with ukrainian officials like the one that yasmin just

mentioned since he is not an official member of the administration and neither is the person he's trying to interview? >> well, i think that that question really depends on what rudy giuliani was trying to talk about -- talk to viktor shokin about, but that question is sort of what is revolving around the entire controversy that is sparking the impeachment inquiry. i mean, why has rudy giuliani been so involved in ukrainian policy essentially. and there's been sort of a sense among republicans or there used to be a sense and sort of a defense of giuliani that he was sort of acting independently and going off the rails and sort of investigating these theories about the bidens by himself, but we saw with some other testimony from ambassador sondla-- presid trump and deal with ukrainian policy through this, so that

kind of puts a damper in the theory that giuliani was doing this all by himself, and i think as we've pointed out more, especially about this visa, if we find out more details about was trump involved, how hard was rudy giuliani pushing, that could be damaging as well. >> how could this affect giuliani going forward? >> i think certainly he's being nfgt investigated by prosecutors in new york. i think there's a real possibility of his future -- any legal career, of course, being in danger, whether or not this results in any convictions or any charges is of course up in the air. there could be theory about that. he is definitely a central figure in impeachment, and anything that happens and any articles of impeachment i'm sure he will be a central figure in that as well. >> emily let's talk about president trump's decision to change the next g-7 summit

meeting location from doral to another undisclosed one, possibly camp david. this administration rarely backs down from its choice, especially in the face of media criticism or even some political pushback. what do you think prompted the quick change this time around? >> i think that republicans, especially sort of have a heightened sense of controversy about everything that trump is doing right now, and i've seen reporting that said that trump changed his mind in part because he was expecting -- not expecting rather so many republicans to be discontent about this decision and really not being able to defend it, so that was one thing that i think prompted the change, and it's also sort of interesting that the republicans are being vocal about not being able to support this decision, and i think that the impeachment inquiry and everything surrounding that has

really made every decision that trump makes to be heightened and they can only focus their energy in defending so much. >> it is shocking, though, the about face that he has made in the decision. i don't think anybody really expected it because the president when they make decisions like this, it seems as if character wise he digs his heels in even more, even if he feels there's discontent. in this case the president very much made an about face in the matter of 48 hours or so since the announcement was made. >> yeah, certainly, and i think that is sort of the result of, again, ligke a heightened sense of political urgency and risk here. i think that maybe -- i was thinking that maybe perhaps this decision that was made would be another sort of way that the trump white house is trying to distract from the impeachment inquiry and sort of dig in their heels into another controversy the g-7 summit or something else to kind of flood the media and

flood so many representative and congressmen. it seems like this was more of a genuine want of the president and certainly not the normal way that g-7 summits and summits like this, locations are chosen, so i think the pushback from republicans and trump allies really put a damper had in that. i also thought it was extremely interesting that mick mulvaney says trump still sees himself as part of the hospitality industry, and that seemed to be very concerning and contradictory to a lot of claims that they made earlier in the week. >> it was a very revealing moment. i'm not sure if he intentionally meant it, but certainly did reveal a lot of the mind-set of the presidency at times. emily larsen, washington d. k, hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of lebanon this week amid huge antigovernment protests. we're going to go live to beirut

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welcome back, over the weekend, lebanon experienced its largest protests in 14 years after antigovernment demonstrators took to the streets. protests erupted after the government announced a plan to add a tax of $6 a month to the popular messaging apps, whatsapp, facebook messenger and face time. >> the government dropped the tax but not before the protest swelled to engulf other issues including political corruption, unemployment. joining us now nbc news correspondent cal perry. will this reform package announced by the prime minister end the protests or is it too little too late given how much

the protests have swelled? >> i think it's too little too late. you'll see people arriving. i'll get out of the way, gabe can show you down straight down this road is the parliament building. the prime minister is meeting with top officials in the government doing exactly what you laid out, trying to come up with a package that will satisfy protesters here. the problem is as we've talked about this is about economics. this is not a political protest in lebanon, which is used to so many political protests, so much sectarianism exists here in lebanon. in is a united protest about the economy, about improving the lives of the vast majority of people on the ground. you know, it is a small minority of people in the government who seem to be getting the economic benefits that lebanon has, and so it is a protest about corruption. and everything in lebanon is complicated. we're going to try to show you the security forces here. there was a lot of rioting three nights ago. that calmed down last night. we had close to a million people

on the streets of lebanon. the biggest protest in this nation's history, the question today as you've laid out, what will the prime minister say? he will give a national address shortly in the next few hours. will it satisfy protesters? one of the issues there is there is no leadership of these protesters. there is nobody for the government to negotiate. the other thing that has people concerned is that the roads are open. the roads are shut down, they're blocked off, and sooner or later the patience of people who are not a part of these protests is going to give. that's something that has people concerned here as people continue to set up these barricades in downtown beirut. >> talk to us quickly about what some of these protests have looked like over the last couple of days, and have they been peaceful for the most part? >> by and large they have been peacef peaceful, and again, i can't underscore this enough. lebanon is a country that has suffered so much sectarian violence. there is so much division in this country. when you see everybody united

under the lebanese flag, we see people united under the lebanese flag, there is something for people here that is beautiful about that. the question is how long do the protests stay peaceful? does the prime minister say something today that maybe infuriates people even further? does some of this sectarianism creep in? right now we're talking about better wa better wages, a tax break, no more of these measures of austerity that lebanon has dealt with for so long. a lot will be decided today. >> cal perry live for us in beirut. thanks for that update. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> late last night a tornado struck north of dallas. it only was about 15 to 20 miles away from the stadium when it hit, and we have significant damage, numerous naeighborhoods a lowes's department store has been destroyed. a lot of o'vehicle damage, a lot of roof damage.

it's illuminated when you see those lightning strikes. it went through a populated area. thankfully i have not heard of any reports of any injuries or fatalities from this tornado, but you can see it's still early. they're still going door to door. they're still doing search and rescue. it only happened about five hours ago. when the daylight comes up, we'll give you some more pictures and more information. here's downtown dallas right here. that's the storm that produced the tornado. it is only roughly 20 miles to the north of downtown areas of the north dallas area. there's been other significant severe weather, too. we've had a total of four tornado reports overnight, 77 wind damage reports. we still have a tornado warning along the texas, louisiana, arkansas border and a couple of tornado possibilities in areas of central missouri. we have a lot of severe thunderstorms. these white dots, those are act i ive lightning strikes. as we go throughout the rest of

the day, this storm system continues to push to the east. it's not going to be as severe today. i don't think the tornado threat is going to be as great. we're going to have a rainy, chilly day in the northern portions of the storms. as we head into tuesday, this storm system sweeps into the east, not severe weather, but we will be dealing with a period of rain moving through the northeast and mid-atlantic for your tuesday afternoon into your tuesday evening. for today, if we get additional severe storms we have about nine states and 17 million people at risk from houston and new orleans over to mobile, pensacola, areas around memphis. nashville you're only in the marginal risk. the storm should be weaker for you. as we go into tuesday, that storm system, the only isolated severe storms we could get would be in areas of north carolina and south carolina, about 7 million people at risk. for today's forecast, everyone is all clear and nice from the carolinas up to the northeast today. tomorrow is the day when the wet weather arrives on the east coast. that dallas tornado, i mean, that's a scary scene. you know how many hundred

thousands people in the cowboy stadium there. >> how quickly does a tornado warning give you in advance if people were in an area where they're expecting tornados to get out of harm's way. >> in this case it looked like it was about 15 to 20 minutes of notice. >> not much. >> that's how it typically is for a tornado. they form, the warning goes out. during the day we knew there was a possibility of tornados in this region. the residents in that area knew severe weather was possible. they do this a couple of times every year. >> scary thought. >> so far so good with no injuries. thanks bill. still ahead the latest in the back and forth between hillary clinton and tulsi gabbard after clinton said she believes russia has its eye on the white house hopeful. we're back in a moment. l. we're back in a moment

. welcome back, a federal appeals court ruled last week that president trump's accounting firm must turn over all financial records requested by the house oversight and reform committee. in april the house subcommittee subpoenaed the firm and trump's lawyers fought it arguing that congress had no legitimate legislative purpose for getting the materials. an april memorandum from elijah cummings stated that the four main objectedives for the subpoena were to determine whether trump engaged in illegal conduct, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and accurately reported his finances to the office of government ethics. a two to one ruling concluded

that the oversight committee is pursuing a legislative purpose. hillary clinton suggests that 2020 candidate congresswoman tulsi gabbard may be the favorite of the russian government. clinton said that russia has quote, got their eye on somebody who's currently in the democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. gabbard hit back at the comment with a series of tweets over the weekend writing hillary and her gang of rich powerful elite are going after me to send a message to shut up, tow the line or be destroyed. we the people will not be silenced. gabbard pushed back on claims she is planning a third-party run in 2020. the hawaii congresswoman has previously defended bashar al assad, an ally of russian president vladimir putin. a recent report from the "new york times" and nbc news analysis from february showed that russia news sites and social media linked to the kremlin have been promoting

gabbard's candidacy. still ahead, president trump has insisted he's bringing home u.s. troops from the endless wars in the mideast. it turns out the troops that are leaving northern syria may not be coming home so soon after all. plus, what we know this morning about house speaker nancy pelosi's unannounced visit to afghanistan in jordan with a bipartisan congressional delegation. we'll be right back. back.

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's

top stories. we begin in the middle east where president trump says in order to end quote, endless wars, he ordered about 50 u.s. troops to return home from northern syria. mark esper says not only is the number of troops significantly more than 50, they aren't actually coming home. >> we've removed all of our, as we said, 50 soldiers but much less than 50 soldiers. they're now in a very safe location, heading into an even safer location is we'. we're bringing our soldiers back home. we've done a great job. >> the u.s. withdrawal continues a pace from northeast syria, again, we're talking weeks not days. the current game pope franclan those forces to reposition into western iraq. >> all of them? >> yeah, the ones coming out, right, that original 1,000, and then two missions. one is to help defend iraq, and two is to perform a counter isis commission as we sort through

the next steps. and again, that's the current game plan. things could change between now and whenever we complete the withdrawal. that's the game plan right now. >> is there an agreement with the iraqis on that? >> i talked to the minister of defense from iraq and i will be having conversations i'm sure going forward, and we'll nail down all the particulars. >> in addition to leaving a handful of troops at a base in southern syria, u.s. officials tell "the wall street journal" president trump is considering a plan to keep a few hundred u.s. troops in northeast syria. the paper reports a principal mission of those troops will be to prevent syria and russia's advance into the region's oil fields. the troops would also enable the military to retain a foothold in the fight against islamic state militants. the president appears to have alluded to the idea on twitter friday writing this, the u.s. has secured the oil. >> despite the trump administration's public statements, vice president mike pence brokered a pause in the

turkish offense iive against th kurds and not a cease fire. that word is not used anywhere and the turks have rejected the term as well. mark esper commented over the weekend about reports of continued intermittent fighting in the area. >> i think overall the cease fire generally seems to be holding. we see a stabilization of the lines, if you will, on the ground, and we do get reports of intermittent fires, this and that. that doesn't vsurprise me necessarily. that's what we're picking up. that's what we're seeing so far skpl there are reports that since the turkish assault started around 1,000 isis supporters have escape from a kurdish holding camp and isis fighters have escaped from other prisons as well. secretary of state mike pompeo and president trump appeared to have differing opinions about the future fight against the terror group. >> every player hates isis, everybody we're talking about. syria more than us, russia more

than us. they've done a big number on russia, and we're over there fighting isis, but they're over there fighting isis, too. they can handle it. and they should handle it. we can fight our own battles on our own territories. they can take care of isis. we have them captured, the united states captured them. some were released just for effect to make us look a little bit like oh, gee, we got to get right back in there. >> the counter isis campaign, i'm proud of the work our team has done. we've been serious about it. we've been thoughtful, we've been strategic, and we will continue to make sure that we take the primary effort. i'm very confident that this administration's efforts to crush isis will continue. >> house speaker nancy pelosi led a group of bipartisan lawmakers on a previously unannounced visit to the middle east to discuss the deepening crisis in neighboring syria. pelosi along with nine congressional leaders met with officials in jordan and afghanistan to discuss security and, quote, regional stability. the group was briefed on

reconciliation efforts with the taliban in afghanistan by u.s. military leaders and troops in an effort to conduct, quote, effective oversight. their visit briefly overlapped defense secretary mark esper's trip to the region. trump tweeted that the group of lawmakers should find out why obama drew the red line in the sand and then did nothing losing syria and all respect. i did something. >> secretary of state mike pompeo is accusing house democrats of leading an unfair impeachment inquiry after barring state department lawyers from listening to interviews with current and former agency officials at the center of the investigation. in an interview with "politico" on friday, pompeo accused democrats of putting state secrets at risk and said the state department has been given little visibility into what is being said by current and former employees. pompeo said this, not letting state department lawyers in the room. they have not let state department lawyers be part of these hearings. that's unheard of. i haven't seen you all report that. he told "politico" that during

the house's investigation of benghazi state department attorneys were, quote, allowed to listen to depositions and review transcripts of interviews. however, under house rules for all depositions adopted in january, quote, witnesses may be accompanied at a deposition by a personal non-governmental counsel to advise them of their rights. observers or counsel for government agencies, may not attend. yesterday pompeo once again hit house investigators for not allowing the agency's attorneys to be present during testimony. >> i frankly wish the state department lawyers were being permitted in the room to hear testimony from state department officials. this is deeply unfair to the officers that serve under me. it's wrong. this has been unfair in the nth degree. we've got officers going up there to testify about important security related matters without a state department lawyer in the room, and then we're not being allowed to know what it says. we're not able to protect the

state department. we're not able to protect the united states of america, and adam schiff ought to be embarrassed by the kangaroo court he's running. >> joining us now from washington political reporter for the "washington examiner" emily larsen is back with us once again. with these new deposition rulings having been adopted this year, do secretary pompeo's claim against congressional investigators fall flat, or is he also -- is there any validity to what he's saying that this in the past used to happen. you used to have state department lawyers in, while the rules changed just this january, they should not have been? >> i think his argument is one more of principle rather than of legality, especially considering that when he was in the house of representatives investigating benghazi this was something that did happen. state department officials were permitted to sit in hearings. so i think his frustration could be understood that his -- his state department officials can no be or lawyers could not be

present during this testimony, especially if you are concerned about state secrets and also just wanting to know the entire facts of the case of what's going on in impeachment. i think it's also, you know, we have to note that the state department has been telling some current and former officials to not testify and so they're trying to stonewall congress in that way, which is ironically something that secretary pompeo complained about when he was in the house of representatives investigating benghazi and complaining that the white house had stone walled those informations, and so in a certain sense no matter what the rules are, how these decisions are handled and whether -- who's where and who's providing documents and who is able to listen in to testimony is all part of a larger political calculation especially when it comes to impeachment. >> you've also been closely following this 2020 related story having to do with this back and forth as we've been talking about between

congresswoman tulsi gabbard and hillary clinton, what more are you learning on this? >> i think actually very interesting to see how the other 2020 contenders are responding to this controversy between tulsi gabbard and hillary clinton because it was sort of surprising to see hillary clinton go and indirectly reference her and suggest that she was preparing a third-party run with the aid of russia or backed by russia or being groomed for that when she has said multiple times in the past that she is not going to run as an independent or third party and she'll support the democratic nominee. we've seen beto o'rourke come to the offense of congresswoman gabbard, andrew yang and marianne williamson have as well, but others like kamala harris, julian castro and pete buttigieg have declined to kind of take sides and some of them hinted at some skepticism of

both sides, both hillary clinton's claim and both some skepticism that tulsi gabbard's whole demeanor and style, especially with her response to secretary clinton that was quite fiery. >> let's revert back to mick mulvaney and his attempt to clean up the mess that he created in washington with the hand grenade he pretty much lobbed into that press briefing room on thursday. did he go far enough in trying to i guess squash concerns among the president's supporters, particularly republicans, who felt that, in fact, he had admitted to a quid pro quo taking place when he spoke to reporters there on thursday? >> well, i think that these headlines were out there the day of the press conference, and this is, you know, this is something that i think administration officials should be aware that every single thing that they say and every single way that they phrase things are going to be taken a certain way, and if it appears you are

suggesting there was some kind of kwud kwid, even if mick mulvaney did not suggest that, the damage has in a sense been done and it has made some republicans in congress a little bit concerned about what's going to happen next and especially i think it will be interesting to see not only what house republicans are thinking but what senate republicans are thinking because it looks like this is going to go towards a senate trial and what these members of congress in swing states who are trying to hold onto their seats really think of this is going to be key. politically not only for trump's impeachment and possible removal, but also for republicans going forward as a party. >> all right, emily larsen, thank you. still ahead, the latest in the college admissions scandal, some parents are expected to

change their pleas and it could mark a major shift in the historic case. meteorologist bill karins is back with another check on the forecast after severe weather ripped through parts of texas. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment.

welcome back, hollywood actress felicity huffman is halfway through her 13 day prison sentence. >> today three other parents involved in the saga are expected to change their pleas in the case. nbc news correspondent sam brock has more. >> reporter: it's not a role actress felicity huffman auditioned for, but the cameras found her clad in a green jumpsuit walking the grounds of a low security prison in dublin, california. her hair tucked underneath a white baseball cap on her way to meet husband william h. macy and eldest daughter sophia grace. until next sunday the former desperate house wives headliner. >> i would do anything for you.

you are my daughter. >> reporter: has a less glamorous identity, prison inmate 77806-112. >> when she goes into prison, she's a number and a name, just like everybody else. >> jennifer myers served 14 months in federal prison on drug charges and advises people sentenced to serve time. >> she's going to be in a state of shock that probably really isn't going to leave until she gets out of prison. it's going to take her time to get over this experience. >> reporter: huffman's 13-day sentence coming after she shelled out $15,000 to have her daughter's s.a.t. answers corrected. part of a sprawling scandal, nicknamed varsity blues, that's led to indictments for more than 30 parents all tied to an alleged fixer rick singer. so far ten of those parents have been sentenced, nine of them to jail time. and according to the u.s. attorney's office now another three are changing their pleas from not guilty to guilty and are expected in court monday. something lori loughlin may want

to take note of. the former full house actress who's pleaded not guilty to funneling half a million dollars to singer to get her daughter into college. loughlin has a court hearing in mid-january, though the current state of huffman's wardrobe and living environment perhaps the only reminder she needs. sam brock, nbc news. >> our thanks to sam brock for that report. let's switch gears for a moment and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> the severe weather outbreak that took place place from dallas to missouri and even into areas of arkansas. all the blue dots are the wind reports. this was the dallas area, and that was the tornado that struck just north of there. that was around 9 and 10:00 p.m. that was very close to where they were playing the football game. let's talk about the day ahead and the week ahead forecast. for today, pretty big storm system, the one responsible for the severe weather last night is going to roll through the deep south. it's going to spread rain through the tennessee and ohio

valleys and a cool rainy day for our friends in wisconsin, minnesota, and the great lakes. the dangerous weather will be in the south, though, areas of arkansas, areas especially the western half of tennessee, louisiana, mississippi included. isolated strong storms, wind damage, there may be a brief tornado or two. the eastern seaboard is fine for today. into tuesday the rainy weather will spread your way along with some storms. by wednesday that storm system is beginning to exit, a little bit of rain early in the day in northern new england. it will clear out. notice we're kind of quiet middle of the week. a little bit of mountain snow, too. we're getting that time of the year in the northern rockies where we get one storm after the other. then we have another significant rain event possible at the end of this week on friday moving down through the southeast and into the mid-atlantic region. keep that in mind for your travel plans through atlanta, new orleans, and anywhere there in the southeast, middle of the country looks fine by the end of the week. temperature wise a little warm out ahead of the storm system, and the cool air behind it is going to be responsible for that

snow as we mentioned. at least you're a little mild today into the ohio valley. we'll continue to give you updates when we hear more stories and pictures out of the dallas area from that tornado last night. still ahead, senator and 2020 candidate elizabeth warren says she will soon be releasing her plan to fund medicare for all. what we know about her proposal so far coming up.

welcome back, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren announced that she will soon be

releasing a new plan that will explain how she will pay for medicare for all. >> what i see, though, is that we need to talk about the cost and i plan over the next few weeks to put out a plan that talks about specifically the cost of medicare for all and specifically how we pay for it. this is something i've been working on for months and months, and it's got just a little more work until it's finished, but i want to bring this out, but here is the promise i make to you and make every chance i get, and that is i will not sign a bill into law that does not reduce the cost of health care for middle class families because it is the cost

of health care that is hurting families and the cost of health care is what they care about, and because they care about it, i care about it. >> however, warren who has faced criticism over whether she would raise taxes to pay for the plans, did not directly answer reporters' questions about whether the plan would include a middle class tax increase. the controversies behind hillary clinton's e-mails that clouded her presidential campaign can finally be put to rest after a state department investigation found there was no systematic or deliberate mishandling of classified information. the inquiry which began three years ago found that 38 current or former state department officials were culpable of violating security procedures in a review of about 33,000 e-mails sent to or from the server that clinton turned over to investigators. the report shared with congress this week states while there were some instances of classified information being

inappropriately introduced into an unclassified system in furtherance of expedience, by and large the individuals interviewed were aware of security policies and did their best to implement them in their operations. it does state that while the use of a private e-mail system itself did not necessarily increase the likelihood of classified information being transmitted on unclassified systems, those incidents which then resulted in the presence of classified information upon it carried an increased risk of compromise. overall, the report further concluded that there was no persuasive evidence of systematic deliberate mishanding of classified information. republican congressman francis r francis rooney announced he will not be running for a third term. rooney made it clear on friday he is keeping impeachment on the table after criticizing the president for possibly using his office for political gain. >> whatever might have been gray and unclear before, it's certainly quite clear right now

that the actions were related to getting ukraine to do some of these things. we're not supposed to use government power and prestige for political gain. >> is that an impeachable offense? >> that's something i really can't answer. i don't know. i want to study it some more. i want to hear the next set of testimony next week from a couple more ambassadors, but it's certainly very, very serious and troubling. >> you've been here since 2017. you came in as a freshman in january, do you need a third term? do you want wione? >> i don't really think i do. >> if we put up a list of republicans who have said they're not going to run in 2020, do we add your picture there? >> yes, you do. i've done what i came to do. i want to be a model for term limits. i'm the guy that came up with a term limits bill that doesn't require a constitutional amendment. this is public service, not public life. i thought the idea was that you came and did your public service and left, you accomplish what

you want to accomplish and you left. >> on saturday rooney announced his retirement citing he had done the work and hoped to be a model for term limits. rooney's announcement makes him the 15th house gop member who will not be seeking another term. coming up, we're going to bring in hans nichols with the latest from washington, how the trump administration is poised to kick off the new week following one of the most hectic and consequential news cycles yet for the white house. we'll be right back.

. chief of staff mick mulvaney is trying to clear up his comments about ukraine. he is insisting he did not admit to a quid pro quo with tukraine president trump reverses course on his plans to hold the g7 summit at his miami resort after backlash from both seeide

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